MMAudio: Taming Multimodal Joint Training for High-Quality Video-to-Audio Synthesis

Ho Kei Cheng, Masato Ishii, Akio Hayakawa, Takashi Shibuya, Alexander Schwing, Yuki Mitsufuji; Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2025, pp. 28901-28911

We propose to synthesize high-quality and synchronized audio, given video and optional text conditions, using a novel multimodal joint training framework (MMAudio). In contrast to single-modality training conditioned on (limited) video data only, MMAudio is jointly trained with larger-scale, readily available text-audio data to learn to generate semantically aligned high-quality audio samples. Additionally, we improve audio-visual synchrony with a conditional synchronization module that aligns video conditions with audio latents at the frame level. Trained with a flow matching objective, MMAudio achieves new video-to-audio state-of-the-art among public models in terms of audio quality, semantic alignment, and audio-visual synchronization, while having a low inference time (1.23s to generate an 8s clip) and just 157M parameters. MMAudio also achieves surprisingly competitive performance in text-to-audio generation, showing that joint training does not hinder single-modality performance. Code, models, and demo are available at: hkchengrex.github.io/MMAudio